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Byline: Scott Lloyd When I was sixteen, I got my first job as a dishwasher working for the grand rate of $1.10 per hour. It wasn't much -- about $5.70 [...]

Byline: Victor Ahiuma-Young Aug 08, 2013 (Vanguard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- THE decision by the Senate to remove the National Minimum Wage from the exclusive legislative list and [...]

Byline: Linda Eroke Jul 30, 2013 (This Day/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The seeming decision of the Nigerian Senate to decentralise the minimum wage has met stiff opposition, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne: Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. marked the four-year anniversary of the last minimum wage [...]

Byline: Boima J. V. Boima Jul 18, 2013 (New Democrat/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- After Liberian workers cried for years for a minimum wage rate, members of the [...]

Jul 09, 2013 (New Democrat/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- After Liberian workers cried for years for a minimum wage rate, members of the Liberian Senate yesterday set a [...]

Byline: Anthony Masake May 10, 2013 (New Vision/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- There has been growing debate about the thorny issue of minimum wage in Uganda and President [...]

May 06, 2013 (The Star/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- During the international Labour Day celebrations, President Uhuru Kenyatta raised the minimum wage by 14 per cent. This means [...]

Byline: Edris Kiggundu May 03, 2013 (The Observer/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- For those who appreciate a good minimum wage, the opinion of either President Museveni or Uhuru [...]

Byline: Linda Eroke Jul 22, 2013 (This Day/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Organised labour in the public service sector has berated members of the Senate for supporting the [...]

Byline: Taiwo Ogunmola-Omiliani Jul 22, 2013 (Leadership/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Labour leaders under the platform of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) have enjoined the [...]

Byline: Francis Okeke Jul 22, 2013 (Daily Trust/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The Senate, which is attempting to review the constitution, last week voted to give governors powers [...]

Jul 11, 2013 (Sudan Tribune/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Sudan's Ministry of Finance has announced today that the committees which were formed to consider the impact of increasing [...]

Byline: Francis Okeke And Mohammed Shosanya Jul 09, 2013 (Daily Trust/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have raised [...]

HARTFORD, Conn. -- The following information was released by the office of the governor of Connecticut: Governor Dannel P. Malloy commended the passage of legislation in the Connecticut State Senate [...]

Byline: Oswald Shivute At Ongwediva May 23, 2013 (The Namibian/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- THE Metal and Allied Namibian Workers Union (Manwu) has urged the construction employers, especially [...]

Byline: Chuks Okocha May 15, 2013 (This Day/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Minister of Sports and Chairman National Sports Commission, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi Tuesday said that the National [...]

Byline: Hassan Lwabayi Mudiba May 13, 2013 (New Vision/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- As workers recently commemorated the International Labour Day, Uganda government refused to review her minimum [...]

Byline: Julius Odeke May 04, 2013 (The Independent/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- As the World commemorates the World Press Day Uganda's practicing journalists have registered their dissatisfaction with [...]

Apr 05, 2013 (Congress of South African Trade Unions/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Thank you for giving me the opportunity to say a few words on such an [...]

ANCHORAGE -- The following information was released by the Alaska State Senate Majority Caucus: Thanks to a bill passed into law this year, Alaska's minimum wage will increase tomorrow, from [...]

MADRID, Spain -- The following information was released by the Presidency of the Government of Spain: The Council of Ministers has set the Inter-professional Minimum Wage for 2010 at 633.30 [...]

WETHERSFIELD, CT -- The following information was released by the Connecticut Department of Labor (DOL): The minimum wage in Connecticut increases to $8.25 per hour as of January 1, 2010, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Employment Policies Institute: Friday, Connecticut's minimum wage will increase to $8.25 per hour, making it the third highest in the nation [...]

WETHERSFIELD -- The following information was released by the Connecticut Department of Labor (DOL): Connecticut's minimum wage will increase to $8.25 per hour as of January 1, 2010, State Labor [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Employment Policies Institute: By: Kristen Lopez Eastlick Maine's minimum wage increased to $7.50 per hour this month, making it the eighth [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Employment Policies Institute: By: Kristen Lopez Eastlick Earlier this month the Colorado Department of Labor announced that the state minimum wage [...]

Byline: Nangula Shejavali Sep 30, 2009 (The Namibian/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- SECURITY companies that once argued that they would not pay the minimum wage because it was [...]

LONDON -- The following information was released by the Confederation of British Industry: The CBI commented today (Tuesday) on Prime Minister Gordon Brown's commitment to raise the minimum wage every [...]

The following information was released by the Montana Department of Labor and Industry: The state's minimum wage will remain $7.25 next year. Montana law requires an annual adjustment to the [...]

Byline: Demola Akinyemi Jun 02, 2009 (Vanguard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode (SAN), has assured that the minimum wage being [...]

Mar 23, 2009 (Daily Trust/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Chief Anthony Ani, former Minister of Finance, has called for caution on the new minimum wage agitation. He said [...]

Byline: Onwuka Nzeshi Abuja, Dec 24, 2009 (This Day/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The ad hoc Committee set up to review the Nigerian Press Council Amendment Bill yesterday [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Employment Policies Institute: Though the holiday season is traditionally a time of celebration, this year the teen unemployment crisis threatens to [...]

Byline: Dayo Johnson Dec 23, 2009 (Vanguard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- THE Federal Government yesterday said that a new wage regime for workers in the country will be [...]

Byline: Daniel Nonor Nov 11, 2009 (Ghanaian Chronicle/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The Tripartite Committee comprising Government, Employers and Labour has set up a technical sub-committee to fashion [...]

LONDON -- The following information was released by the British Parliament: This event will launch the Committee's report which examines the work of HM Revenue and Customs in targeting the [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs: by COHA Research Associate Mo Wong In May 2009, both chambers of the Haitian Parliament voted to [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN): Friday, July 24th marks the third and final set of the federal [...]

Byline: Ismail Mudashir Jun 05, 2009 (Daily Trust/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The Kaduna State University chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it would [...]

Byline: Funmi Komolafe and Victor Ahiuma-Young May 29, 2009 (Vanguard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- It was a gathering of who is who in the real sector of the [...]

May 04, 2009 (Daily Trust/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Osun have expressed their conviction that the [...]

Byline: Ebun Babalola May 01, 2009 (Vanguard/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The 2009 May Day celebration is an avenue to address deregulation, hardship that employers of labour encounter [...]

Byline: Sylvester Enoghase Mar 17, 2009 (Daily Independent/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The organised labour at the weekend insisted that Federal Government that should not carry out the [...]